Comments on: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye http://www.radioopensource.org/johnny-we-hardly-knew-ye/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:23:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BobS http://www.radioopensource.org/johnny-we-hardly-knew-ye/comment-page-1/#comment-32707 BobS Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:14:21 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/johnny-we-hardly-knew-ye/#comment-32707 Chris, thanks for sharing that... I'm directing my news writing students from Knoxville to read his obit and follow some of the many links the Times has provided. However, here's one I found on my own... a story I remember reading a few months before moving to Boston in 1999: His travel piece about the city, written that January: http://tinyurl.com/l5vfn It may not be his best work, but it has its points, including this description of Boston: "Compact and convenient, a mosaic of distinctive neighborhoods, it is a baby London." Chris, thanks for sharing that… I’m directing my news writing students from Knoxville to read his obit and follow some of the many links the Times has provided.
However, here’s one I found on my own… a story I remember reading a few months before moving to Boston in 1999: His travel piece about the city, written that January: http://tinyurl.com/l5vfn
It may not be his best work, but it has its points, including this description of Boston:
“Compact and convenient, a mosaic of distinctive neighborhoods, it is a baby London.”

]]> By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/johnny-we-hardly-knew-ye/comment-page-1/#comment-31601 Potter Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:46:14 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/johnny-we-hardly-knew-ye/#comment-31601 Thank you for this space devoted to R.W. Apple. I was saddened to hear of his passing. A NYTimes reader for many years, he was a favorite on any subject, always good. If I saw his byline, it was a must read. The last of his writing that impressed me were his travel pieces on the English countryside and not long before that on his travels in India, the southwest coast. Peppercorns! Here is a link to the NYTimes page <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/r_w_jr_apple/index.html?8qa" rel="nofollow">R.W. Apple Jr.</a> Thank you for this space devoted to R.W. Apple. I was saddened to hear of his passing. A NYTimes reader for many years, he was a favorite on any subject, always good. If I saw his byline, it was a must read. The last of his writing that impressed me were his travel pieces on the English countryside and not long before that on his travels in India, the southwest coast. Peppercorns!

Here is a link to the NYTimes page R.W. Apple Jr.

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